Andrew Salkey (1986 & 1994 series)

Andrew Salkey (1986 series)Andrew Salkey reads poetry from Away and discusses the problems and promises of his homeland island, Jamaica: “Home seems a place that I know I once loved, but I know too that it could do with massive changes, social and political.”

Andrew Salkey (1994 series)Salkey delivers poems illustrating the physical poverty he saw at home and the spiritual poverty he senses elsewhere. The implication is that everyone, as long as the world exhibits vast economic disparity, will remain homeless: “In my own way of thinking, those who find new ways to make use of the ego could be well on the way home.”